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MATTHEW II. REED, OF ALLEGI'IENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

INDICATING AND RECORDING SCALE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,756, dated February6, 1900. .flpplication Iled August 15, 1896. Serial No. 602,891. (Nomodel.)

'T0 all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, MATTHEW 11. REED, a citizen or the United States,residing at Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have in vented or discovered new and useful Improvementsin Indicating and Recording Scales, of which the following is aspecification.

In the accompanying drawings,which make part of this specification,Figure 1 is an elevation of the scale-beam. Fig. 2 is an elevation ofthe combined poise and card-holder, showing a portion of the beam. Fig.3 is a cross-section along line a a in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a frontVelevation of the counterpoise, showing card-holder and a weight inposition. Fig. 5 is a cross-section along the line b b in Fig. 4. Fig. 6shows the recording-card used in this form of my device. Fig. 7 shows myinvention adapted to compound beams, the beam in the figure being arailway-scale beam with the card-holder removed to show arrangement ot'beams. Fig. 8 is a cross-section along the line c c in Fig. 7. Fig. 9 isa sec tional plan view along the line d d in Fig. S. Fig. 10 shows therecording-card used in this form of my invention. Fig. 11 shows amodiiication of the secondary-poise mechanism shown in Fig. 7 withcard-holder removed. Fig. 12 is a cross-section along Vthe line e e inFig. l1, and Fig. 13 shows the form of recording-card used in this formof my device. Figs. 6, 10, and 13 are drawn full size for the sake ofclearn ess. The remaining figures are half-size. Fig. 14 is a singleassembled Iigure showing the beam with a poise and weight carryingcounterpoise-hanger mounted thereon.

The purpose of my invention, generally stated, is to provide a reliableindicating and recording device for scales.

The following is a detailed description of my invention:

1 is a graduated scale beam preferably made with parallel edges.

2 is a poise mounted on beam 1 and adapted to be used as a card-holder.

3 is the guide-plate of poise 2.

et is a filler holding poise 2 steady on beam l.

5 is the front plate of poise 2, screwed to guide 3 through lugs 6 6 andcut away at the top .to permit the insertion of card between itandbeam 1. Push 7 is attached to plate 8, the face of which is providedwith a backing of rubber orany other suitable substance 9. On the stemof push 7 is spring 10, which retains plate 8 normally against plate 5.In recording Weights the card is inserted between'backing 9 and the beam1, against which it is advanced by pressing push 7, the spring ot' thecard being suiicient to throw the card away from beam 1 when push 7 isreleased.

l1 11 are a series of puncturing-pins fixed on the face of beam 1, thefirst pin to the left of the series being so placed as to register O on'card 12 when the poise 2 indicates O on beam 1 and the card is inposition in the card-holder. apart a distance equal to one hundredpounds on the graduations' on the scale-beam, each succeeding pin,beginning at the left, having a predetermined rise above the precedingone-as,for instance, one-eighth of an inch, as in Fig. l.

12 is a card fitted to be inserted in poise 2 and on its lower .half 12to receive the imprint of pins l1 11. The horizontal lines on 12d arespaced apart the same distance as the vertical rise of pins 11 1l, whilethe vertical lines on 12a correspond to the grad nations on the beam 1.It will thus be seen that the horizontal lines on 12a will indicatehundreds and the vertical lines tens and subdivisions thereof.

Counterpoise 13 is `mounted on stem 14. Card-holder2fL slides onguide-bar 15 by means of guides 16 16, guide-bar 15 being fixed tocounterpoise 13 by bolt 17 and to stem 14 by cross-bar 18.

l5a is a spring pawl or catch by which cardholder 2a is held up whilethe counterpoise 13 is being loaded with weights. Card-holder 2 ispreferably constructed of flexible material, so that it may be pressedagainst pins 11a 111i, and is provided with asuitable backing, as rubber2b.

19 is a rider fixed to card-holder 2a in such a position as to rest oncounterpoise 13 when no weights are placed thereon and adapted to restupon the weights and raise card-holder 2 as weights are introducedthereunder.

19a represents a nine thousand pound The pins 1l 11 are spaced IOOweight placed on counterpoise 13 on which rider 19 is resting, thuselevating the cardholder 2.

Guide-bar 15 has on its face puncturingpins 11 11, the lowest one ofwhich is distant above the counterpoise 13, so as to punch zero on theupper halt` 12b of card 12 when it is in position in the card-holder andno weights are placed on counterpoise 13. The remaining pins are placed,respectively, above the preceding one at a distance equal to thethickness ot' a ten-thousand-pound Weight, and to the left so that avertical line dropped through a puncturing-pin would be some iixeddistance-as, for instance, one-eighth of an inch, as in Fig. l-to theleftof a like line dropped through the pin next beneath.

In Fig. 6, on half of card 12 marked 12b the horizontal lines are spacedapart at a distance equal to the distance between the said verticallines dropped through any two adjoining puncturing-pins 1la 11a. Thevertical lines on 12b are spaced apart by a distance equal to thethickness of a ten-thousand-pound Weight. It will thus be seen that inthis case the vertical lines denote thousands of pounds, while thehorizontal lines denote ten thousands of" pounds.

In this form of my device (shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) theoperation of weighing is as follows: The load is placed on the scalesand balanced in the ordinary manner. For

instance, suppose the load to equal nine thousand two hundred and fortypounds. The counterpoise would be loaded with weights representing ninethousand pounds, which would elevate the card-holder 2'DL by means ofrider 19 to the position shown in Fig. 4. Card 12 is then inserted intocard-holder 2tl in such a manner that its left-hand edge, as shown inFig. 6, would be the top, the card facing inward. By pressing theflexible card-holder the portion 12b of the card 12 would be puncturedat lthe intersection of the horizontal line O and the vertical line 9.When the weight of the load is determined by loading the counterpoisewithin a thousand pounds, the poise 2 on beam 1 is manipulated until thescale balances, when in this case the poise 2 would indicate two hundredand forty pounds on beam l. The portion 121L of the card 12 is thenplaced in card-holder 2 in the position shown in Fig. 6, but facingbeam 1. By pressing push 7, 12b would be punctured by the third pin 11from the left on beam 1 at the intersection of horizontal line marked 2with the vertical line marked 40, or two hundred and forty pounds. Thenreading from the two halves 12 and 12b of card 12 we have the totalweight nine thousand two hundred and forty pounds.

My device may be applied to compound beams by the construction shown inFigs. 7, 8, and 9, in which figures the particularI beam shown is suchas is used on railway-scales. On poise 2 is fixed, by lugs G G, asecondary beam l, graduated to a thousand pounds, on which is mountedsecondary poise 20, to which is fixed, by arm 21, the sliding bar 22,fitted with guide 22. Bar 22 has on its face a series ofpuncturing-points rising successively from right to left one-eighth ofan inch, as in the figures, or any other fixed unit, and separated,respectively, by a distance equal to a graduation of a hundred pounds onbeam 1a. 23 is the ordinary roller mechanism by which poise 2 runs alongbeam 1. The rubber backing 9 is preferably cut away, so as to pressagainst that portion of the card only which is marked olii3 forregistry, the form of the card used in this case being shown in Fig. 10.4 is a plate attached to plate 5, upon which card 12 rests when inposition. The pins 11 1l on beam 1, Fig. 7, have the same successiverise as like pins in Fig. 1, the first one being likewise so placed asto register O on the upper half of card 12, Fig. 10, when the poise 2indicates O on beam 1, Fig. 7, and each successive pin being to theright of the preceding one by a distance equal to the graduations of athousand pounds. the horizontal lines in the upper half of card 12, Fig.10, which are separated by a distance equal to the rise in the series ofpins denote tens of thousands, while the vertical lines which correspondto the graduation of the beam denote thousands. In the case of the lowerhalf ot' card 12, Fig. l0, the horizontal lines are separated by adistance equal to the unit of rise of series of pins 11b 11b on beam 22,thus denoting hundreds of pounds, while the vertical lines correspond tothe graduation on beam 1a and accordingly denote tens of pounds andsubdivisions thereof. In registering weights-for instance, seventy-fourthousand one hundred and sixty pounds-in this form of my device thepoises are moved into the position of balancing and the card insertedface inwardly in the card-holder, seventy-fou r thousand poundsisindicated on the beam 1, Fig. 7, in like manner as two hundred and fortypounds was indicated on beam 1, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the scale, however,in this case, cf course, being graduated in thousands of pounds insteadof hundreds. When the secondary poise is moved along beam 1, the bar 22moves therewith, carrying pins 1lb 1lb past the divisions on the lowerhalf ofthecard. Whenthesecondarypoisestauds at O, the first punch to theright would be opposite the intersection of the two O lines ou the cardwhen it is in position for punching. As the poise is moved to the rightthe said punch traverses successively the divisions of the card onhorizontal line O until a hundred pounds is reached, when the firstpunch passes beyond the divisions and the second punch traverses thehorizontal line marked l until it reaches the vertical line marked 60,when in this case the scale would balance. The card is then punched, theupper half recording seventy-four thou- It follows that IIO IZO

sand pounds and the lower half one hundred and sixty pounds, or in totalseventy-four thousand one hundred and sixty pounds.

Figs. 1I and I2ishow a modification of the device as applied to acompound beam, in which a pointer 24 instead of a sliding bar 22 isfixed on arm 2l. When secondary poise 2O indicates 0 on secondary'beaml, the card being in position, said card having on its lower half ascale graduated to correspond to l, Fig. 13, pointer 24 is opposite O onthe card and punctures the card at that point when the push 7 ispressed. As the secondary poise is advanced along l the pointercorrespondingly advances along the card and will punch accordingly whenthe card is advanced against it.

Having described my invention, I claiml. In a recording-scale, a beamhaving registering-pins thereon spaced at graduated horizontal andvertical. distances.

2. In a recording-scale, a beam having registering-pins thereon spacedhorizontally according to the graduations on the beam and vertically bya predetermined unit.

In a recording-scale, a beam; a counterpoise hung on said beam; aguide-bar carried by said counterpoise and registering-pins on saidguide-bar spaced at graduated horizontal and vertical distances.

et. In a recording-scale, a beam; a counterpoise hung on said beam; aguide-bar fixed to said counterpoise and registering pins spaced thereonvertically corresponding to the weights used on said counterpoise andhorizontally by some predetermined unit.

5. In arecording-scale, a beam; a counterpoise hung on said beam; aguide-bar fixed to said counterpoise; registering-pins on saidguide-bar, spaced at graduated horizontal and vertical distances; acard-holder sliding on said guide-bar; a card adapted to it in saidcard-case and receive the imprint of said registering-pins,and means ofadvancing said card against said pins.

G. In a recording-scale, a beam; a counterpoise hung on said beam; aguide-bar fixed to said counterpoise; registering-pins spaced on saidguide-bar vertically corresponding to the weights used on saidcounterpoise and horizontally by some predetermined unit; a card-holdersliding on said guide-bar; a card adapted to fit in said card-case andreceive the imprint of said registering-pins,and means for advancingsaid card against said pins.

7. Inarecording-scale,aprimarybeamtltted with registering-pins; aprimary poise mounted thereon; a secondary beam on said primary poise; asecondary poise mounted on said secondary beam; a punching-pin actuatedby said secondary poise; a card so divided by horizontal and verticallines as to receive the imprint of the pins on the primary beam and thepin orpins actuated by the secondary poise and a card-holder fitted tocontain said card and advance it toward said beam.

8. In a recording-scale, a beam having registering-pins at graduatedhorizontal and vertical distances and a card carried by the poiseadapted to receive the registering-marks of said pins.

9. In a recording-scale, a beam, registeringpins spaced at graduatedhorizontal and vertical distances on said beam, a poise adapted to beused as a card-holder; a card adapted to iit in said poise and means foradvancing said card against said pins.

lO. In a recording-scale a beam, a counterpoise hung on said beam, aguide-bar mounted on said counterpoise; registering-pins spaced athorizontal and vertical distances on said guide-bar; a card fitted toreceive the imprint ot` said pins and means of applying said card tosaid pins.

l1. In a recording-scale, a beam, registering devices spaced on saidbeam at graduated horizontal and vertical distances.

12. In a recording-scale, a primary beam having pins graduated athorizontal and vertical distances thereon; a primary poise mounted onsaid primary beam; a secondary poise carried by said primary poise and aregistering member actuated by said secondary poise and tted withregistering pin or pins.

13. In a recording-scale, a primary beam having pins graduated athorizontal and vertical distances thereon; a primary poise mounted onsaid primary beam a secondary poise carried by said primary poise and apuncturing-pointer actuated by said secondary poise.

14. In a recording-scale a beam having registering-pins spaced thereonand a card tted to receive the impress of said pins and graduated withhorizontal and vertical lines, one series of lines denoting multiples ofthe other series.

l5. In a recording-scale, a primary beam having registering-pinsthereon; a primary poise mounted on said primary beam; a secondary poisecarried by said primary poise;

a registering member actuated by said secondary poise and fitted withregistering-pins, and a card fitted to receive the impress of said pinsand divided into two sections, each section being graduated byhorizontal and vertical lines, one series of said lines denotingmultiples of the other series,and the graduations on one section of saidcard denoting multiples of the graduations on the other section.

16. In a recording-scale, a beam; a poise mounted on said beam; a baractuated bysaid poise having on its face pins spaced vertically andhorizontally at graduated distances.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day ofAugust, A. D. 1896.

MATTHEW II. REED.

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EDWARD A. LAURENCE, L. D. IAMs.

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